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Cockney Pride is a unique one stop educational website where you can explore the cockney traditions, learn cockney rhyming slang and read about the East End in the Victorian times.

Find out about the Jack the Ripper murders, try and understand the mind of John Merrick (The Elephant Man) and read about the life and times of the infamous Kray Twins.

Visit some well known East End markets, learn about the East End in WW2

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To be a true Londoner - A Cockney, you have to be born within hearing distance of the church bells of St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, in the City of London of London.

Before the advent of motor traffic, the sound of the Bow Bells apparently reached 6 miles to the East, 5 miles to the north, 4 miles to the West and 3 miles to the south.

'Cockney' or 'cock's egg' was a 14th Century term applied contemptuously by rural people to native Londoners who lived rather by their wits than their muscle.

In time, the term became synonymous with working class Londoners and it lost its once denigrating qualities. To most outsiders a Cockney is anyone from London itself.

Today's natives of London, especially its East End use the term with pride - 'Cockney Pride'.

Cockney Pride takes a look at East London and the places where some of our capital’s best-kept secrets are hidden ... a distance from the traditional London Tourist traps, yet somewhere well know to William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

The Cockney Lords Prayer

We visit the colourful Cockney Street Markets and traditional Pie & Mash shops. We look back at the gangland of the notorious Kray Twins and the haunts of Jack the Ripper. On the way we also meet many well known personalities and celebrities who were born in or close to the East London. If you love television and films we’ll show you some of the places where they've been made.

London tradition dictates that to qualify as a true Cockney, babies should be born within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside.

However, a new sound mapping study reveals that no London babies are now born within the sound of the Bow Bells. The Collins team commissioned leading acoustic consultants to produce a new sound map of London to establish how far the sound of the famous ‘Bow Bells’ reaches in 2012 compared to 150 years ago.

The analysis reveals that the zone within earshot of the Bow Bells has shrunk significantly since 1851 when the famous church bells - known to children the world-over for inspiring Dick Whittington ‘to turn again’ - could be heard from the City of London across Islington, Hackney and Tower Hamlets and into parts of Camden, Southwark, Newham and Waltham Forest.

In 2012, it is shown that the chimes of St Mary-le-Bow are only audible across a small patch covering just the City and Shoreditch, in which no maternity wards are located.

Map showing the sound of Bow Bell's from 1851

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